{"id":11724,"date":"2020-11-18T15:14:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=11724"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:14:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:14:31","slug":"a-tale-of-contrast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/11\/a-tale-of-contrast\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Contrast"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/11\/a-tale-of-contrast\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>I recently experimented with painting some 6mm vehicles using just Citadel&#8217;s new Contrast paints. I tried them out on some unreleased models &#8211; 6mm versions of the Prosperity army vehicles released a little while back in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/HammersSlammers\/Prosperity%20-%2015mm.html\">15mm<\/a>. I wrote up a post on our <a href=\"http:\/\/brigademodels.co.uk\/mws\/blog\/2020\/11\/17\/painting-6mm-armour-using-contrast-paints\/\">club&#8217;s blog<\/a> (so please feel free to pop over there and have a look), but you can see the results below. For just five colours, I think they worked out pretty well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BL-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11725\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/11\/a-tale-of-contrast\/bl-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BL-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BL-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BL-1-1024x675.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BL-1-850x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BL-1-850x478.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BL-1-250x141.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/11\/a-tale-of-contrast\/&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-11724 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/11\/a-tale-of-contrast\/bl-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BL-4-250x141.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BL-4-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BL-4-850x478.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" data-attachment-id=\"11726\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/11\/a-tale-of-contrast\/bl-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BL-4.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BL-4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BL-4-1024x675.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/11\/a-tale-of-contrast\/bl-2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BL-2-250x141.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail 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data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BL-2-1024x675.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/11\/a-tale-of-contrast\/bl-3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BL-3-250x141.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BL-3-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BL-3-850x478.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" data-attachment-id=\"11728\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/11\/a-tale-of-contrast\/bl-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BL-3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,768\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BL-3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BL-3-1024x675.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently experimented with painting some 6mm vehicles using just Citadel&#8217;s new Contrast paints. I tried them out on some unreleased models &#8211; 6mm versions of the Prosperity army vehicles released a little while back in 15mm. I wrote up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/11\/a-tale-of-contrast\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Painting 6mm SF armour with Contrast paints","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,39,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6mm-sf","category-hammers-slammers","category-painting-and-modelling"],"views":2164,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BL-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-336","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12045,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2021\/04\/the-end-of-the-line\/","url_meta":{"origin":11724,"position":0},"title":"The End of the Line","author":"Tony","date":"April 16, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday, for the first time in three months, I left the workshop on time and with the order queue empty - for a brief period we were completely up to date with orders (of course, by the time I got home 25 minutes later there was already a new one...).\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;6mm SF&quot;","block_context":{"text":"6mm SF","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/6mm-sf\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ProsperityHeader6.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ProsperityHeader6.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ProsperityHeader6.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ProsperityHeader6.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":11650,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/10\/fshb-in-6mm\/","url_meta":{"origin":11724,"position":1},"title":"FSHB in 6mm","author":"Tony","date":"October 17, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"As promised, a preview that isn't Aeronef! 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It's exactly the same list, two versions of the Viking half-track and three trailers. 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